updated: April 4th, 2008

Dan Florio
Crestline, California

Currently working as a freelance developer.

Primary Skills

• Adobe Flash Actionscript development (OOP)
• User eXperience and graphic design
• Flex 2.0/3.0
• Flash video conversion and interface coding

Languages:

• Object Oriented Programming (OOP) in ActionScript 2/3
• HTML (Dreamweaver or text editor)
• CSS/CSS-P
• Javascript

Work Experience

SmileBox.com ( Flash Developer, Designer, UX ) ( September 2007 - present)
Create SmileBox designs - photo greeting cards. Create templates for other designers to improve team workflow and add features to the framework to impove user experience.

Microsoft XBox/EXG (Entertainment EXperience Group) (February 2006 - September 2007)
Lead developer for all RIA pieces on Xbox.com and Zune.net. Using Flash AS2, OOP, XML.

Lead developer for Zune hardware/services demo. Responsible for integration and coding of the Zune demo which was shown to CEOs of MTV, FOX, WarnerBrothers, Bill Gates.

Developed a framework for rapidly creating 360 Dashboard prototypes based on Flash and XML.

Freelance work
1999 - present Freelance Flash Actionscript developer/Designer,
Web Designer/Programmer

• Catalysis Marketing, Seattle, WA (1/2006-2-2006
  • User Interface/Programmer and Designer.
• XanaduWest.com (10/2005 - 12/2005)
  • XML driven site. New photos, (sub)categories all managed via XML.
  • Supports deep linking and bookmarking within the site.
  • Email photo functionality.
• BillForFirstLady.com (7/2005)
  • Code for custom designed video interface.
  • Converted QuickTime videos into FLVs for progressive download.
• HeyRadioGuy.com (3/2005 - 1/2006)
  • Modified existing Flash template to client specifications.
  • Converted static text to dynamic text updated via XML.
  • Added functionality to suit clients specific content needs such as custom built accordian component, audio, and video controls.
• College of Engineering Technology (8/2004-11/2004)
  • Enhanced attractiveness to potential students creating a sleek modern design.
  • Created Flash media player for photos and audio interviews of students.
  • Provided common design interface for all departments within the college and organized each department’s navigation consistently.

United States Space Academy Kennedy Space Center (Summers 1987 / 1990)
Kennedy Space Center, Florida / MSFC, Huntsville Alabama,
Lecturer: orbital mechanics, solar and planetary science, Space Shuttle operations, and others.
Mission Director: prepaired trainees for Mission Control Operations and Space Shuttle piloting.

Education

Philosophy and History double major (Spring 1996 - Spring 1999)
Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, Arizona

Study Abroad Program (September 1998 - May 1999)
University of Swansea, Wales

I’m always looking for the ideal situation: that would be a great job in a great location. Example: if the Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a Flash Dev position or maybe if Google wanted to start using Flex/Apollo, that sort of thing.

Specifically I’m looking for freelance work for the months of March, April, and May of 2007. Anything on-site will have to be in the Seattle or San Diego area unless there are temporary housing options.

My wife and I are interested in relocating starting in January 2008. We would be interested in locations in Europe, Asia, Australia, or locations along the Pacific coast of America.

If you have a job opportunity in a state that voted for George Bush in 2004 then don’t bother contacting me.

Dan Florio
Updated: 1/2/2007

I am an expert-level Actionscript developer looking for a web application team to do object oriented programming (OOP) with Adobe Flash, Flex, and soon Apollo. It would be an added bonus if your team also needs someone to assist with user experience (UX) and graphic design. It is important to me to work in an environment where I am pushed to expand my skills, both technically and creatively.

In my current role as the Senior Actionscript Developer for the Xbox team at Microsoft I have the opportunity to work with some of the finest UX (User eXperience) program managers in the business. I played a meaningful part in developing the recent Xbox Dashboard and Zune UX products.

For some of the projects at Xbox I am the sole designer and developer. In those instances I do all of the analysis, design and implementation. Other projects are a team effort in which case I manage the unification of the assets and code in addition to assisting the other developers with their work as needed.

About the skills I can offer your team:

• I like to work on projects that push the boundaries of what can be done with Flash. I know that not every project can be bleeding edge but a few per year is nice. Along those lines I have done three things that many Flash developers would have said was impossible.
• LiquidText (polygeek.com/liquid-text/) The Senior Support Engineer for the Flash player at Adobe said it couldn’t be done. Three days later, working between sessions at FlashForward, I showed him that it could be.
• video.Maru (polygeek.com/videomaru/) if you asked someone to create a custom video interface, from scratch, and code in the functionality for playhead seeking, volume controls, and play/pause button they would probably tell you it would take a few days. I’ll only need two minutes.
• DeviceFade: the Flash documentation plainly says that you cannot mask or _alpha fade device fonts. The Flash documentation is wrong.
• I don’t know everything about Flash. For instance I’ve never worked with the Socket class - it just never came up. However, given 8 hours I’ll be comfortable doing anything you need to do with sockets, or whatever.
• Aside from continually improving my knowledge of Actionscript I am currently working into ColdFusion and SQL.

Thank you for your consideration. I hope we can chat about how I may help your team achieve its goals for 2007 and beyond.

Sincerely,
Dan Florio